Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

A black hole 11.6 billion light-years away is breaking a speed limit for feeding, offering clues about the early universe's ...

New Hubble observations explain how blue straggler stars form, showing that binary systems in low-density clusters play a key role ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

That's the ethos behind Vaonis's Hestia. It's not a smart telescope, or even a normal telescope. Think of it as a lens to ...

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...

M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is remarkable, but they might be the only black holes we can ...

A pair of incredible images taken at the very moment two different stars exploded are also an accurate representation of how ...

Astronomers have long searched for clues that a hidden companion star sits out of view near the red supergiant star ...